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Side Hustle School

#1396 - Attorney Shutters Day Job In Favor Of Photography

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Entrepreneurship,, Side Hustle, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

When an antitrust attorney loses interest in her day job, she captures the moment in profitable portrait photography.


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0:00.0

In the very first week of this podcast, or maybe it was week two, but very, very early

0:08.9

on, January 2017, I told the story of Oliver Asus, the Craigslist wedding photographer.

0:15.5

I also wrote about him in the side hustle book.

0:17.4

I love that story.

0:18.4

A lot of people have talked about it since then.

0:20.1

Oliver was a skilled photographer, but he had never done weddings before.

0:23.9

So he put in adding Craigslist, offering to shoot a wedding for just $250.

0:28.7

And from there, he was actually able to go on and build pretty significant side business,

0:32.8

even as he continued with his day job.

0:34.3

So he really diversified his income.

0:36.2

And actually, since then, we've heard from several people who have emulated the same

0:39.0

kind of model, followed his lead and done something similar.

0:42.3

If you'd like to see what he's working on now, he's got a new project.

0:45.8

Check it out on Instagram, Oliver underscore Asus.

0:49.0

Oliver underscore Asus.

0:51.9

So here we are, some, I don't know, 1,380 days later.

0:55.3

And in today's story, when an antitrust attorney loses interest in her day job, she captures

1:00.2

the moment in profitable portrait photography.

1:03.4

So she too is able to build a really significant side income.

1:05.9

In fact, she's able to equal the income that she has in her day job, and it ends up serving

1:10.4

as an off-ramp for her.

1:12.1

So different paths for different people.

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